- Alan W. Watts, is an Anglo-American philosopher, writer, and lecturer, born January 6, 1915, in Chislehurst in Kent (England) and died November 16, 1973, in Mount Tamalpais in California. Self-taught, he is the author of twenty-five books and numerous articles on spirituality, #religions, and #philosophies of the East and the West (#Zen Buddhism, #Taoism, #Christianity, #Hinduism).
Renowned radio and television columnist in California, interested in new trends appearing in the West in his time, he championed a certain change in mentalities about society, nature, lifestyles, and life. aesthetic, and he is considered one of the fathers of the counterculture in the United States. He is one of the characters in Jack Kerouac's Heavenly Tramps.
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“If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here unpropational, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.”
― Alan W. Watts
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Alan Watts, or Alan W. Watts, is an Anglo-American philosopher, writer and lecturer, born January 6, 1915 in Chislehurst in Kent (England) and died November 16, 1973 in Mount Tamalpais in California. Self-taught, he is the author of twenty-five books and numerous articles on spirituality, religions and philosophies of the East and the West (Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Hinduism).
Renowned radio and television columnist in California, interested in new trends appearing in the West in his time, he championed a certain change in mentalities about society, nature, lifestyles and life. aesthetic, and he is considered one of the fathers of the counterculture in the United States. He is one of the characters in Jack Kerouac's Heavenly Tramps.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth
Alan Watts, or Alan W. Watts, is an Anglo-American philosopher, writer, and lecturer, born January 6, 1915, in Chislehurst in Kent (England) and died Nov...
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
-“Zen… does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.”
-“I prefer not to translate the word Tao at all because to us Tao is a sort of nonsense syllable, indicating the mystery that we can never understand — the unity that underlies the opposites.”
-“A proper exposition of Zen should tease us out of thought, and leave the mind like an open window instead of a panel of stained glass.”
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